Nine perish in New Year’s stampede at Freedom City mall
Freedom City Mall Katwe territorial police is investigating an incident that led to the death of nine people during a New Year’s celebration stampede at Freedom City Mall in Namasuba, a Kampala city suburb. According to Kampala Metropolitan Police (KMP) deputy spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire the...
Namuwongo Blazers highlight 2022 basketball year
Rose Akon led UCU to league title When it mattered most, the Namuwongo Blazers basketball club failed to tilt the scale in their favour, as they ended up losing the National Basketball League (NBL) best of seven finals 3-4. The 66-64 final score to the...
Cricket: Aweko soars with Victoria Pearls in 2022
Victoria Pearls For Ugandan cricket, there has probably never been a better time, to enjoy the holidays. Both the men and women’s national teams, the Cricket Cranes and Victoria Pearls respectively are coming off test tournament victories. Last week, the men won the East Africa...
Rugby Cranes 7s team tops in 2022
Uganda’s 7s rugby national team led by Michael Wokorach could easily pick up the gong for team of the year, all sporting disciplines in the country considered. There has not been a year, when they dominated the back pages as this one with Africa Rugby...
Year review: Villa survive relegation; Cranes at Chan
It has been an eventful year for local football with notable successes, failures and drama both on-and-off the field. Some of the highlights include the Uganda Cranes qualifying for the sixth consecutive African Nations Championship (Chan), former league champions SC Villa surviving relegation, BUL FC...
Tanzania blames its trading partners for underperformance
<p class="align--justify">“Because of this unpleasant external environment, combined with elevating domestic supply-side constraints, inflation continued to trend upward, reaching 4.8 percent in September 2022 in Tanzania mainland,” the central bank said in its economic bulletin for the third quarter of 2022 ending September published December 26.</p>
Former Pope Benedict XVI dies aged 95
"With sorrow I inform you that the Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, passed away today at 9:34 in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican," Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a statement.
Somalia wants even more drone strikes against the Shabaab
Somalia now increasingly sees more drone strikes as crucial to finish off al Shabaab hide-outs, upending a policy Mogadishu fronted in the final months of the previous administration following mounting criticism of civilian casualties.
2022 in review: We’re globalised at last — for better, for worse
Certainly, in these 12 months, it has felt as though the oasis that is Dar es Salaam has been affected by global trends more than it might have been in the past. I like our insularity to some extent, Tanzania feels safely “out of the...
These are tough times; happy (and not-so-happy) New Year!
All that is in order, for we are told that those who cannot hope are condemned to be hopeless, and the hopeless are a damned lot. So, let us wish each other a very happy new year and lift our gazes to the horizon to...
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